Hi Craig, > If you really want to muse, muse about rhythm syllables. Kodaly rhythm > syllables are iffy. Gordon syllables have syntax and account for unusual > meters. I remember getting yelled at during a meeting of music teachers when > I gave a demonstration of Gordon rhythm syllables. That's how fucked up > music education is in the USA. Oh, the musings.
Konnakol FTW? =) > It is weird though, historically, that there was a system in place for > understanding tonality but not rhythm. Western thought, in all disciplines, has… gaps. > Gosh, I am a nerd. I see your nerd, and raise you the fact that I'm literally in the middle of engraving a song called “Nerds & Geeks & Dorks & Dweebs” — for my musical, “The Quest”, which centres around a D&D-like role-playing game — in which the [critical!] differences between the four categories of social outcastness are explained in 8-part harmony. LOL Kieren.
